I haven't been around in a while, so I'll reply en-masse. Sorry this is so long, but I think multiple posts would be more annoying.
rennaT wrote:kai wrote:first i want to say that im a little iffy on making it legal. i smoke pot. alot in fact. but who will get the rights to it if its legalized? most likely the tobacco industries, and THATS my biggest fear. maybe if they legalize growing it as well i could get behind that. my birth mom says thats what they're gonna do in california soon, make it lega to grow, smoke and buy with a medical mary jane card (which is easy to get). i just dont want to see it get raped by the tobacco industries with thier cyanide filters and all that other crap.
i agree that certain rules and guidelines should apply, like driving and using heavy machinery would have limits/prohibited to do so while high. and as for weed giving you cancer thats absolutey bogus. maybe the tobacco leaf people use to wrap it up with (eg. vanilla dutch master.... my personal favorite. i hate those flavored wraps, i want to taste the weed not the cigar and vanilla dutches are like blunt-lite) but other then that it just knocks off braincells... but hey so does booze and its legal. also kills you liver and kidneys >_> .
i think the legal age should be 18, or maybe 16 with parental consent. 21? no fucking way. you can give yourself cancer but not the munchies? you can go to war but you cant go to mars? bull. and as for smoking on the job well, with manual and repetitive labor i found that a little puff to get a small buzz helps a loooooot to get thru and still do a good job.... helps the time pass quicker and stress level stay ok. im not saying get blazed out ur mind but hit it and quit it and light that sucker up later after work.
but the bottom line is YOU SHOULDNT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT AT ALL!!! it was put on this earth for everyone ffs, to smoke and ease the stress of our lives. a plant to bring together nations. ... that last part was quoted from the bible, btw. dont have my Pot Culture book with me so i cant tell you exactly which part but it does say it, and gets mentioned a few times more. hell the number one stoner rule is to always share ffs... unless you only have enough for yourself.
Things like this post are the reason that marijuana has such a stigma attached to it.
I completely agree with Tanner, but I'll expand upon it a bit. People have an impression that people that smoke pot are slackers, not that intelligent, etc. this post forwards that. If you want to argue for the legalization of marijuana, you need to do so in a clear, academic, and intelligent manner. One of the key ways people will judge you, particularly in this context, is in the mechanics of your writing. Failing to obey the technical rules of written English, such as capitalizing "I" and the beginnings of sentences, will result in people automatically judging you as less intelligent, less motivated, and/or less mature. Please spellcheck prior to posting, the lack of apostrophes in words like "shouldn't" and "I'm" also bodes poorly for people's impressions of you. Please never use more than one exclamation mark, and please do not use all-caps for emphasis; this forum provides mechanics for emphasizing text like
bold and
italic, and using these will increase the impact of your writing, while using all-caps will make it look amateur.
Yes, writing in a manner that is technically correct may seem difficult, annoying, or too institutional, but it comes with numerous advantages. When your writing is technically correct, people will consider you more intelligent and more mature, and they will take you and your ideas more seriously.
DemonzLunchBreak wrote:As far as smoking goes, there are already alternatives. There's the typical brownie, which removes all the negative side effects of smoking. The problem with oral consumption is that the correct dose is more difficult to determine and so it is easy to produce effects that are too strong or too weak. The preferred method of consumption, at least in a medical context, would be vaporization. Vaporization eliminates the titration problems with oral doses and the smoke inhalation problem with smoking. Really, the only downside is that vaporizers are expensive, but I don't see how that should enter the conversation when all we're discussing is whether the plant has beneficial medical properties or not.
Is THC processed in to the blood effectively when introduced directly at the stomach, as in a capsule? This would seem the most logical method of insertion, but if there's an issue with titration in the mouth than that would certainly be present in the stomach...
Brocerius wrote:
Marijuana may not be a gateway drug, per say, but it is certianly true that people who smoke marijuana are more likely to move onto harder drugs than people who dont, and that marijuana is very commonly the first drug a future addict will take. If you, like me, think this constitutes a gateway drug then take it up with your semantics.
While the correlation does exist, I've always been skeptical of the causality on this. I doubt marijuana makes people more likely to use drugs, I think people that use drugs are more likely to start out using marijuana. If that makes any sense.
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